1: Many Happy Returns - 2000AD prog 590

London: February 3, 1988: Zenith is on his way home from his birthday party, singing “The Queen is Dead” by The Smiths to himself. He gets in and plays back his answerphone messages while he runs a bath. The doorbell rings and as he crosses his flat to open it the phone plays the following message: “Zenith, you don’t know me and I don’t really have time to introduce myself. Listen, you’re in real danger! You’ve got to get out of there! Get out now!” He opens the door to find a big stompy robot, which smashes him across the room. “I repeat; get out of there! Get out now!

Cover art by Steve Yeowell